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GPIO chips have been around for years, but were never real devices, instead they were piggy-backing on a parent device (such as a platform_device or amba_device) but this was always optional. GPIO chips could also exist without any device at all, with its struct device *parent (ex *dev) pointer being set to null. When sysfs was in use, a mock device would be created, with the optional parent assigned, or just floating orphaned with NULL as parent. If sysfs is active, it will use this device as parent. We now create a gpio_device struct containing a real struct device and move the subsystem over to using that. The list of struct gpio_chip:s is augmented to hold struct gpio_device:s and we find gpio_chips:s by first looking up the struct gpio_device. The struct gpio_device is designed to stay around even if the gpio_chip is removed, so as to satisfy users in userspace that need a backing data structure to hold the state of the session initiated with e.g. a character device even if there is no physical chip anymore. From this point on, gpiochips are devices. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> |
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